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Bog Child

by Siobhan Dowd

A buried mystery amid the Troubles

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A buried mystery amid the Troubles

While cutting peat with his uncle, Fergus discovers the body of a child, opening a mystery that intersects with the pressures of his own life. His brother is on hunger strike in prison, his parents are divided over the Troubles, and Fergus has been drawn into courier work through blackmail. A voice reaches him in dreams as he tries to understand the discovery and the surrounding turmoil. The novel brings a family’s strain, political conflict, and a buried past into one story, with questions of sacrifice and peace running through its premise.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in fiction about family tensions and social conflict.
  • Readers drawn to mysteries rooted in historical or political circumstances.
  • Those interested in stories exploring sacrifice and peace.

Themes

The Troubles and political conflictFamily tensionMystery and the pastSacrifice and peace

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Book overview

DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him--his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what--a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.

Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.
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